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Could El Niño and climate change spell the end for tropical forests?

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Intact forests crucial to Amazon ecosystem resilience, stable climate

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Canopy bridges keep rainforest animals connected over gas pipeline

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds

Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities

Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk

Counterintuitive: Global hydropower boom will add to climate change

Record heat and drought seen in Amazon during 2015-16 El Niño

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Amazonian bat identification takes flight with new interactive guide

Philippine Bleeding-heart doves flutter at the brink, but NGOs respond

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Orangutan reintroductions could risk population survival, study warns

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Rising CO2 is reducing nutritional value of food, impacting ecosystems

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

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